Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown documentary

This is the preview of Learning from Bob and Denise, an upcoming feature-length documentary about the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The film is scheduled for release in summer 2008. 

In the 1960s, the rule-breaking architecture and radical theories of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown shocked the architectural establishment. Today, they are still controversial, yet scholars agree that their work has profoundly directed architectural thought in the second half of the 20th century.

In their provocative parlance, vulgar is good, tasteful is bad, and the ugly and ordinary almost always triumphs over the heroic and original.

Drawing inspiration from such wide-ranging areas of study as history, literature, sociology, urban planning, psychology, art history and mathematics, Venturi and Scott Brown have worked to broaden the scope of their profession and pioneered an approach that is multidisciplinary, multicultural and in constant change.

The film is the story of their origins, influences, ideas and struggles, and the manifestation of these in their life’s work which the filmmaker hopes will inspire all those whose ideas go beyond the established parameters.

All of the proceeds of this sale will support the production of the film and will be tax deductible through our fiscal sponsor, the New York Foundation for the Arts, a 501(c)(3).

More information about the film is available on our website at www.BobandDenise.org.

 

Director and Producer: James Venturi

Running time: 10min

Resolution: 640x360